Word: overcast
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...eyes were fixed on Washington and Moscow (for most men recognized that these capitals were the political poles of the electric situation), the U.S. acted swiftly. By week's end, there were still rumblings in a still overcast international sky. But the immediate crisis seemed to have passed...
...championship match is scheduled for 3 o'clock today at the Dillon Field House courts, Ashley said, glancing at overcast skies and adding a cautious "weather permitting...
...Delhi 4.5 inches of rain, the heaviest single fall in 20 years, ushered in the monsoon season, ushered out the three British Cabinet ministers who had hoped to bring independence to India. Exactly 14 weeks after they had arrived, the Cabinet mission took off into overcast skies, leaving an India precariously set on the road to self-government but still far from the goal to which they had hoped to lead...
Announcer Ed Stevens hooked his mike to a portable transmitter and walked to the river's edge. Then he began his floe-by-floe report. Wet snow had been melting as it fell and, about midafternoon, sun stabbed through the overcast. Behind Stevens' voice, listeners heard the babble of some 250 sourdoughs and Indians excitedly looking for signs of the breakup. Suddenly, like a carrier flight deck in heavy seas, the great mass of ice heaved and fell. A finger of water slithered across the ice and a moment later jagged, crashing floes crunched downstream. No radio audience...
...clock a bosomy mannequin opened the show with a novelty uniform Madame had designed for Chinese airline stewardesses. As she swaggered down a long black runner on the lawn, guests clapped politely and flicked their cigarets on the grass. Occasionally they cast nervous glances at the overcast, wondered if rain would come to spoil the show...